The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-09
Maryland Affairs.

The Towsontown National Bank has moved
into its new building.
T.. Whitman & Sons, dealers in agricultural
implements, Baltimore, have made an assign
ment
Minister Robert NJ. McLane is expected to
leave Paris for the United States on July 16
on four weeks leave of absence.
The tax rate in Montgomery county this
year is sole on the 500. The wheat cropin
the county is the poorest for some years.
Farmers throughout Prince Georges county
have finished threshing their wheat, which
has yielded badly, not over half crop being
harvested.
During the storm on Tuesday four fine
milch COWS, owned by VIM. Nusbaum, near
Mt. Pleasant, Frederick county, were struck
by lightning and killed.
Frederick and Annapolis have free postal
delivery now. Frederick is divided into three
postal districts. There are two deliveries
and four collections daily.
Micaiah Bull, of Baltimore, a freight con.
ductor of the Baltimore & Potomac railroad,
was killed at Washington on Wednesday by
being mashed between cars.
Collector Roberts, of the Maryland internal
revenue district, reports collections in June
S247, Gl9.02, against $l99,3SS.90 in June,
1886, an increase of $4S, 230.12.
An effort is to be made to settle the differ
ences in the Frederick County Agricultural
Society, and for that purpose meeting will
be held at Frederick on July 2Sd.
Mrs. Anna Hemsley Turpin, wife of Hon.
W. T. P Turpin of Queen Anne's, and
daughter of the late Col. John R. Emory,
died last Saturday in her Both year.
The Anne Arundel Agricultural Society
have decided to hold the annual fair on the
It'll. Sth and 9th of September at Galesville,
on West River, if steamboat facilities can be
secured.
C. C. Clapp, prominent dry goods mer-
chant of Hagerstown, has made an assignment
for the benefit os his creditors. 1t is thought
that the assets will be. sufficient to meet the
liabilities.
Samuel Hardy and Henry A. Lee, both
Democrats, had a quarrel over politics in the
second district of Anne Arundel county, on
the 4th, and Lee stabbed Hardy. They be-
longed to opposing factions.
Surveyor WarGeld reports that in June
5,507 immigrants arrived at Baltimore, of
whom 8, 103 were Germans, 555 Russians, 4l9
Swedes, 46l Austrians and 4l9 Bohemians.
The others were from different nationalities.
Martin Kavanaugh, well-known resident
of Eilicott City, died suddenly Wednesday
morning, about nine O'Clock, of congestion of
the brain. Mr.. Kayanaugh was a native of
Bellenrobe parish, county Mayo, Ireland, and
came to this country just previous to the late
war.
There is prospect that the defunct Oxford
Military Academy will be re-established on a
substantial financial footing as joint stock
concern. One wealthy gentleman of the
L., IL
$4,000 has been promised already by residents
of Oxford
The Easton Electric Light Company turned
on the current on Tuesday evening, and
Easton, for the first time, was lighted by cleo
tricty. There was a grand illumination of
500 candle-power on the courthouse square,
which attracted hundreds of people.
Six persons made an attempt to take Jack
son, the colored man who assaulted Viola
Jackson near Pikesville, from the Towson
Jail at an early hour Wednesday morning.
They made no effort to force an entrance to
the Jail, but demanded that the sheriff admit
them, which Of course was refused.
Near Rocky Ridge, Frederick county, last
Saturday, young son of Mr.. Charles Rarriok,
aged about "a years, was thrown under a
reaper which he was driving for his father in
wheat field and almost instantly killed.
The horses, it appears, became frightened
and unmanageable from some cause and ran
away.
William G. Casey, farmer of Kent county,
near Suddlersville has committed suicide.
Casey disappeared Friday afternoon, when he
is thought TO have committed his rash act, as
nothing more was seen of him until Sunday
morning, when he was found hanging from q
rafter in building on his farm by his brother,
+. II. Casey.
Two young men, VIM. Logsdon and VIM
Lancaster, were working in field on the
farm of Henry Logsdon, near Mt. Savage,
Allegany county, on Tuesday, when a thun-
der storm came up. They took refuge under
tree, which was struck by lightning. Ian
easter was instantly killed. Logsdon was
stunned, but will recover.
A man named Chew was accidentally shot
or killed himself Intentionally, last Saturday,
in Hopkins's woods, near Owensville, Anne
Arundel county He had been in bad health,
and said he woHla tRke the gun and go out
searched for and found with gunload in his
mouth. Part of his face was torn off.
Bessie and BERTHE Brown, two young col
ored women, of the eighth district, Cecil
county, were taken to Jail at Elkton on Tues
day, having been committed by Magistrate
Cummings on the charge of assault and battery
on a colored woman named Berry, whose
throat had been so badly cut with knife by
one of the women that she was unable to ap-
pear at the hearing.
The Democratic county central committee
met at Hagerstown on Tuesday, and fixed
Saturday, July 16, as the time for holding the
primary elections to select delegates to the
county convention, WHICH viii be held on
Tuesday, July 10. This eonyentinn will select
delegates to the state convention only. No
arrangements were made concerning the
county ticket.
Mrs. Jos. Passano, of Reisterstown, was
seriously affected by lightning Tuesday after
noon during the heavy storm. She was stand
ing In the doorway and was knocked down.
She was unconscious for half an hour. A
physician was summoned and rendered assis-
lance. The shock affected one side of Mrs.
Passano's head, and her mouth was drawn
down from the effects oft. Sheis improving.
For the second time this season Garrett
county is suffering from a severe drought.
The waters, as a general thing, are very low,
and many of the smaller mountain streams are
almost dry. The farmers in all parts of the
county are complaining of the effects of the
dry weather upon the growing crops. II is
said the grass crop is already materially in
iured and that the oat crop will be almost a
total failure.
President Garrett spent Monday night and
Tuesday morning in Baltimore, but he did
not visit his Office in the railroad building.
He left Camden Station for Deer Park at2.l5
P. NJ. The statement was made by persons
close to the Baltimore and Ohio interest that
the details in connection with the deal have
progressed so nearly to realization that anthem.